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discussed in biography of Clements

...a profound impact on Clements’s intellectual development. Together with Roscoe Pound, another of Bessey’s students who later became a distinguished legal scholar, Clements wrote
The Phytogeography of Nebraska (1898). This broad survey of plants and plant communities served as the joint doctoral thesis for Pound and Clements, and it introduced some of the ecological...